Sentences with phrase «branches of trees with»

For instance, he has encircled branches of trees with gold bands, imagining they will eventually become embedded within the growth rings.

We like to sit there in the near - dark and watch them, swooping down to the forest floor, returning to rest on the branches of the trees with their prizes.

Not exact matches

The local government's crippling debt of more than $ 73 billion and PREPA's own obligations of $ 9 billion made it hard to keep up with critical maintenance like trimming tree branches away from power lines, let alone make upgrades to make the energy network.

In other words, what phase of its «phyletic» development may we consider Mankind to have attained at the present time, in comparison with the other branches surrounding us on the tree of life?

Sethe's tree is carved upon her back, «the decorative work of an ironsmith too passionate for display,» and Paul D «rubbed his cheek on her back and learned that way her sorrow, the roots of it, its wide trunk and intricate branches,... and he would tolerate no peace until he had touched every ridge and leaf of it with his mouth.»

One of my favorite views over the MI lakes are those tall, irregular - branched trees with that big deep blue sky behind.

It's Regilious Evolution with God and Abraham being the root and trunk of the tree, and Judaism, Christianity, Islam being the branches.

April 14, 2012 at 11:00 am Just on the accounts of humanisms» history trees are ladled with the religious being ever so fearful of God's impending wrath should they investigate things does in no way or shape or formula make today's closeted christians alikened to their pruned branches being thown upon the dung heaps!

The prairie in December is brutal and indifferent, but that sated Christmas I was sixteen — with presents back home spilling off the sofa, the annual racecar - track looped in a figure - 8 beneath the tree, too many new books and boxes of candy, the mothball odor of the Christmas linen and the cloying scent of the juniper branches — I perceived, in some confused adolescent's way, the spirit's harrowing side.

It is a like a tree that is growing toward the sky, with enough branches for all the birds of the air to find a place to nest.

We have just seen how, under the influence of Mesopotamian ideas, the Cosmic Tree comes to symbolize, with its seven branches, the seven planetary heavens.

In the same manner, the symbolism of the number 7 and, consequently, the image of the Cosmic Tree with seven branches did not appear before the discovery of the seven planets, which in Mesopotamia led to the conception of the seven planetary heavens.

Finding that tree, with its branches heavy with juicy, red plums, gave me a whole boat load of satisfaction.

In general, prune with a purpose and do so with a full understanding of the avocado tree growth cycle and how trees respond to branch removal.

There are even buds forming on some of the neighbourhood trees and shrubs, and I know that it won't be long before the bare branches of the cherry trees lining our street are alive with blossoms.

You should get some fresh tree branches from the garden and hang them with the help of a small satin gift ribbon.

While our organization has branched out (pun intended) since its founding 30 years ago to protect temperate forests (such as those in the Appalachian mountains), and tropical forests in Africa and Asia, our first efforts were focused on the rainforests of Latin America, working with farmers and foresters there to improve their lives and livelihoods so they wouldn't have to clear trees to plant crops or sell timber.

At Eden East, guests dine al fresco in the shadow of a 1920s farmhouse surrounded by an exquisitely decorated pecan orchard and under the shade of a «living chandelier» housed in the branches of a majestic 40 foot tall Elm tree fruited with light bulbs, flowing strings of crystal and huge handcrafted wind chimes.

a couple of years ago, I climbed up into my tree with plastic, tape and soil — to make 4 layerings on several branches, None of them took — today I learned this (from California Rare Fruit Growers Org):

One of the first branches off of the air - raid tree — he played receiver for air raid father Hal Mumme and godfather Mike Leach at Iowa Wesleyan in the early - 1990s — Holgorsen came to Stillwater from Houston, tasked with marrying air - raid principles to a Pat Jones core.

We are slowly building lots of family traditions as our daughter is only two, but so far we have really enjoyed celebrating winter with her — reading about Jack Frost, talking about winter trees and foraging for branches in the woods to make wreathes.

But jumping from the lower branch of a tree — even with its potential for bruises and scrapes — provides a learning opportunity.

Some of our favorite science with kids activities include Hatching Chicks with Children, Eyedropper «Volcanoes», Sensory Play with Pine Cones & Tree Branches, Shaving Cream & Cornstarch Messiness, and A Multi-Sensory Experiment with Jell - O.

Into shallow dishes we put green paint for the trees and holding J's hand I helped him make a hand print on the card blank with his palm as the base of the tree and his fingers as the branches.

Such as, you can use it with the branch of a tree.

When we were chopping trees down in the back garden we had a pile of branches for a couple of weeks and Ozzy used to love playing with his dinosaurus on it pretending it was «Dino - World»!

Between the 3 sisters in this one white trash branch of the tree, they've contributed a lot of bad stats to a few hospitals with no uncomplicated births between 13 pregnancies.

Educators at PS 160 in Jamaica filled the branches of a «wish tree» with their hopes for all students.

Strong winds, with gust of 50 to 60 mph, along with heavy rain and snow took down trees, branches and power lines causing the outages.

The District is also offering an expanded selection of four - year - old evergreen transplants which are more mature trees with thicker stems, more branching and more developed roots.

The District is offering an expanded selection of four - year - old evergreen transplants which are more mature trees with thicker stems, more branching and more developed roots.

The measure would, in a stroke, force the city to accept the perpetuation of the plastic - trash free - for - all, with tons of discarded bags clogging the sewers, festooning tree branches and littering sidewalks.

DTP mode is for targets obscured by brush and tree branches, while FTP mode looks for the distance of the closest target with overlapping background.

The new technique used software to assign the cancer cell with the fewest mutations as the ancestral clone and place it at the root of the evolutionary family tree, with the other clones arranged as branches above it.

Falcarius's neck was elongated, perhaps for ease in browsing tree branches, and it tromped about in a landscape lush with vegetation, says Lindsay Zanno, a University of Utah doctoral student.

The branches of the avian family tree occupied by perching birds, including songbirds, are bristling with expert impersonators.

«Entire branches of the bacterial family tree have evolved motors with different torques, leading to a diversity of species each geared to their own environment,» said Dr Beeby.

The find means the branch on the tree of life that contains modern birds is now surrounded by animals with four wings, says Steve Salisbury of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, which suggests the four - wing condition may have been an important step in the origin of birds.

Some 370 million years ago cladoxylopsid trees stood at least eight meters tall, capped by branches with twiggy appendages instead of leaves.

If the stories did indeed originate in China, then the Chinese version should sprout from the base of the tree, with all other stories emerging as branches off that trunk.

With DNA evidence as solid as that used to convict criminals, researchers can trace the shared genetic lineage of life's different branches back to the very base of the tree, some 4 billion years ago, when the interaction between primordial bacteria and viruses culminated in the «mother cell,» the common ancestor of all life on Earth.

And the thread of an online conversation — whether it sticks to the original topic or users comment on each other's comments — can be modeled as a tree with discussions veering off on branches, researchers report online November 2 at arXiv.org.

Each branch of the tree is lined with cells sensitive to a different chemical or molecular compound.

The new tooth also contains DNA unlike that of Neandertals or modern humans, suggesting that Denisovans interbred with an even more mysterious branch of the human family tree — one that is either unknown to science, or known only from fossils without preserved DNA.

Trees created from analysis of the first and second codon positions (exon c12) of the TENT data also had lower levels of BS (~ 39 to 64 %) but with more topological differences on the deep branches (Figs. 2, 4C, and 5A), yet all but one of the fully resolved relationships (local difference in egret + ibis + pelican) were congruent with the TENT (Fig. 5B).

(B) Numbers of incompatible branches (out of 45 internal), at different support thresholds, with the ExaML TENT tree, ordered left to right from most to least compatible (expanded analysis in fig.

Although this analysis is limited to specific taxa, it suggests higher ILS near the deepest branches of Afroaves involving the owl, consistent with the branch length, gene tree, and indel findings.

For the intron tree, some lower - resolution branches had local shifts, but they matched those found in the second WGT or the 25 to 75 % data subsets of the TENT; an exception was Phaethontimorphae, which moved from being sister to core waterbirds with 70 % BS in the TENT (but 100 % BS in the WGTs) to sister to core landbirds with 86 % BS in the intron tree.

(A) Cladogram of ExaML TENT avian species tree, annotated for nodes from Fig. 2 (letters), for branches with less than 100 % BS without and with (parentheses) third codon positions, for strong (> 75 % BS) intron gene tree incongruence and congruence, and for indel congruence on all branches (except the root).

The branch lengths of the high - variance exon tree showed a strong positive correlation with GC content and a negative correlation with the average body mass of species, seen at a much lesser magnitude in the low - variance exon tree (Fig. 6, A to D).